Re: Problems w/ adduser... says user 'root' doesn't exist!

2001-01-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, January 11, Monte Milanuk did write: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:38:21PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: > > > I'm a bit confused here... I used dselect to install CUPS and it's > > > dependent packages, but no config program, which seemed odd. I used >

Re: glibc devel info pages

2001-01-03 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 3, Ben Collins did write: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:37:44PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > > "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Ben> By default, __USE_GNU is defined. If you want to define it > > > > (perhaps you meant "...is undefined"???)

Re: C compiler.

2001-01-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, January 2, Xucaen did write: > huh??? it doesn't mention anything about this in > the man pages (man gcc) Well, not in *that* man page, anyway. Normally, the man page for the library function in question will tell you what libraries you have to link against; pow(3) unfortunately

Re: connection to internet fails?

2001-01-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 3, M.B.Midden did write: > Hi > > a few days a go everything worked fine but i rebooted, and i had not al > settings in the right places, because after reboot the settings were gone > ( earlier today i asked how to boot the ip chains and stuff so that :). If i > configur

Re: sharing internet between WINDOZE and LINUX

2001-01-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 1, Cameron Matheson did write: > Hey, > > My family's crappy windows computer has this beautiful DSL connection, > which I have lusted after for many months. Anyway, I can't steal the > modem or anything, so I was wondering, is their a way to share a window's > internet wi

Re: vim's syntax highlighting + typedefs from #include

2001-01-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, January 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did write: > Hi, > > Is it possible to get vim to have a look through your #included files > and colour the defined types? In particular, it would be nice to have > 'gfloat' coloured similar to 'float', when including glib.h As another poster mentione

Re: remote x via ssh question

2001-01-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , January 1, Forrest English did write: > > sorry about that, i should have been more specific. > > i have my sshd_config file set up on both machines to allow X11Forwarding. > i am trying to connect from my desktop (thneed) to my server (truffula.net). > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh

Re: remote x via ssh question

2001-01-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , January 1, Forrest English did write: [reformatted for 80 columns] > i know i can export it just like i would any other time, but i also set > X11Forwarding yes, which i belive should forward it automaticaly, and > here's what i recive when i try and run > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] forrest]$

Re: traslate elf/a.out to text file.

2001-01-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 1, Nguyen Hai Ha did write: > Hi, > > Would anyone tell me what is the command to translate > elf/a.out file to assembly file. > > OS: potato (linux-2.2.18pre21) > ARC: x86 > > # in SPARCs, this is DIS /usr/bin/objdump -d in the binutils package. is a .o, .a, .so, o

Re: Running something in a terminal

2001-01-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 1, Rob VanFleet did write: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 03:04:30AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > $ x-terminal-emulator -T Mutt -e mutt > > Many thanks. > > > ...set your linewrap to 72 chars. > > Sorry, did some pasting in my last message and I guess I mucked th

Re: Tracking down IP's

2000-12-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, December 31, JD Kitch did write: > > Now, find out *who's* sending this traffic. Make sure you've got the > > lsof-2.2 package installed. As root, run > > > > lsof | grep 61662 | grep -i udp > > I do have that package, but this command turned up no output. Uh oh. And you're st

Re: Tracking down IP's

2000-12-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
JD Kitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me what this person is looking for here, and how I > can find out where this is coming from? > > Security Violations > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Dec 31 11:06:47 tower kernel: Packet log: output REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 > xx.xx.xxx.xx:61662 172.16.72.

Re: Tracking down IP's

2000-12-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, December 31, Pollywog did write: > > On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:55:26 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe said: > > > > > Did you change your IP address in the above report? IIRC, 172.16.*.* is > > a block of private addresses. Packets to this address should be

Re: Tracking down IP's

2000-12-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, December 31, ktb did write: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 12:16:59PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > Security Violations > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Dec 31 11:06:47 tower kernel: Packet log: output REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 > > xx.xx.xxx.xx:61662 172.16.72.113:161 L=106 S=0x00 I=7632 F=0x T=

Re: Tracking down IP's

2000-12-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, December 31, JD Kitch did write: > Can anyone tell me what this person is looking for here, and how I > can find out where this is coming from? > > Security Violations > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Dec 31 11:06:47 tower kernel: Packet log: output REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 > xx.xx.xxx.xx:6166

Difficulties with FvwmPager in fvwm2 (potato)

2000-12-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Hello, all. I'm running fvwm 2.2.4-2 on Debian 2.2r2 (potato), and there's something that's been bugging me for a while. I don't have an .fvwm2rc in my home directory, so fvwm looks at Debian's /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc and then reads the various hook files in ~/.fvwm. This generally works OK

Re: Confusion over library names

2000-12-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, December 28, Michael and Ricia Banther did write: > The ld program supports a -l command line option. Why are you calling ld directly? g++ should do that for you--especially with respect to libstdc++ (see below). (Of course, gcc/g++ supports the same parameter.) > Playing arou

Re: Changing screen size along with screen resolution?

2000-12-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Lance Simmons did write: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:42:36PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > > Lance Simmons wrote: > > > > > > Is > > > there a way to change resolution _and_ screen size at the same time? > > > > > does the game support fullscreen? > > Yes, it does. I

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Hall Stevenson did write: > * Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001225 21:03]: > > > Did you add xfstt to your X server's font path? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, > > section "Files", the following line should work for the default set

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Patrick Schnorbus did write: > Hi, > > I´ve just installed xfstt, put some TrueType Fonts in > /usr/share/fonts/truetype and updated the xfstt fonts list. > But i can´t use the fonts. First I tried them to use with konqueror, then > with the GIMP, but in no program

Re: procmail

2000-12-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, December 24, Marcelo Chiapparini did write: > Hi to all! > > I am using fetchmail+exim+mutt as an email system. All the incomming emails > goes to /var/spool/mail/myaccount. I would like now to store the different > messages in separate mailboxes files defined in /home/myaccount.

Re: Catch-22 with modules/backups

2000-12-23 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, December 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did write: > I am eager to try making a debian kernel, to make sure only the drivers I > need are there, but first I need to make a backup !!! While backups never hurt, a kernel rebuild shouldn't require backups. If you leave out some necessary dri

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, December 22, Rob VanFleet did write: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:35:28PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > Is there a way to track the unstable branch for only certain > > > packages? I'd like to install the unstable version of gnucash. > >

How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm still fairly new to debian, so I'm not all that familiar with dpkg, dselect, and apt. Is there a way to track the unstable branch for only certain packages? I'd like to install the unstable version of gnucash. I downloaded the .deb and tried an apt-get install, but it failed

Re: Inappropriate postings: [kroger@Princeton.EDU: Re: OT: regular expression question]

2000-12-09 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, December 8, kmself@ix.netcom.com did write: > Dr. Kroger: > > Attached are several recent posts you've made to the debian-users > mailing list concerning the Debian GNU/Linux operating system > (http://www.debian.org/). I think you'll find that instructions for > unsubscribing fro

Re: [OT] Apple IIe help please

2000-12-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, December 1, Lizard did write: > At 06:25 PM 12/1/2000, D-Man wrote: > > >Hi all. I apologize for the off topic-ness of the message and the > >cross-post. > >I have a friend who has a program she likes (written in BASIC) on an Apple > >IIe. > >I have a way to get into the code an

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-30 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, November 29, brian moore did write: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 05:38:12PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > > Well, they can be. Connections to TCP ports 137, 138, and 139 are part of > > Windows file- and printer-sharing. I don't know all that mu

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, November 28, Damian Menscher did write: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:40:09 -0200 (EDT), Mario Olimpio de Menezes said: > > > > > One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned > > > recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , November 28, Willy Lee did write: > "Robert" == Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:51:09 +0100, Svante Signell writes: > >> Anyone knows what port 12345TCP is used for and which OSes are > >> vulnerable? > > > 12345 is NetBus (according to www.snort.

Re: OT:Netscape

2000-11-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, November 26, Stephan Kulka did write: > I have a problem with netscape, which annoys me. Every time I start > netscape the browser points to http:/// although I would like to point it > to www.debian.org. Only when I open a new window this happens. > Is this an known bug or can I ch

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